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From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
Jefferson Parish: 051: Gretna: 1825: from part of Orleans Parish: Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: 421,777: 642 sq mi (1,663 km 2) Jefferson Davis Parish: 053: Jennings: 1912: from part of Calcasieu Parish. Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America: 31,553: 659 sq mi (1,707 km 2) Lafayette Parish: 055: Lafayette: 1823 ...
Location of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Metairie is located in eastern Jefferson Parish and is bordered by New Orleans to the east, Kenner to the west, Lake Pontchartrain to the north, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks to the south. South of the railroad are River Ridge, Harahan, Elmwood, and Jefferson. The 17th Street Canal forms the border between Metairie and New Orleans to ...
People from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (11 C, 16 P) S. Ships built in Bridge City, Louisiana (97 P) Sports in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (1 C, 9 P) T.
Jefferson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the north side (referred to as the "East Bank") of the Mississippi River. Jefferson is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 11,193 at the 2010 census, [3] and 10,533 in 2020.
It was previously called Ames Montessori School. In 2011 the school board voted to rename it after an African-American judge who died in 1988. He was the first African-American man elected to a Jefferson Parish-level political office. [20] Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts; Miller Wall Elementary School; Ella C. Pittman Elementary School
Jefferson Parish, a long, narrow strip of land in southeastern Louisiana, stretches from the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain to Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico. Adjacent to Orleans and Plaquemines Parishes on the east and St. Charles and Lafourche Parishes on the west, it was named after President Thomas Jefferson, who was responsible for ...